Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Gertie Bulman

 

B. was born on 19 April 1909 in Lodz, Poland.

Her father was the actor Max Bulman.

At the age of five she acted in a children's role in Lateiner's "Khinke and pinke" in Lodz's Grand Theatre, later in other children's roles. Afterwards she acted in children's roles in Lipovski's troupe in Vilna.

When her parents immigrated from Harbin to Seattle, Washington, America, she acted only in children's roles until she was in Philadelphia, where she finished public school, when she began to perform in a grown-up role in Gordin's "Sappho" with Kalich.

B. came to New York where she acted at the Irving Place Theatre. From there she went over to Elving in Newark, where she acted for two seasons as a soubrette, and from 1928-30 she was at the Second Avenue Theatre.


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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 153.
 

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